This Is Belgium: Conceptuele Post-Hipster Neo-Gabber By Radio Soulwax

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I really liked the idea and concept.
Even though these Belgian records sound very "now", they are actually 20 years old and were meant to be played at a much, much faster speed. At the time this was the devil's music for us, but we have learned to listen through the claps and distorted kicks and discovered that if you slow these really dark and heavy techno records down all the way to about 115 bpm, it suddenly makes them sound less frantic, ballsier and a lot sexier. Belgium at its best when pitched down.

The covers of these records are quite generic and don't really lend themselves to animating , so we figured we would bring you the visual aspect of this musical genre that you can't not be fascinated by: the dance. We were very lucky to have found some people who can still do the typical moves, and with them dancing in front of the record sleeves (and sometimes inside of them) we bring you our ultimate tribute to a glorious period in our Belgian musical heritage.

We feel very strongly about this hour, and would like to show that quite often, the best things in life are already right in front of us, we just have to open our eyes (and ears) to them. We stand corrected!
Sources:

http://www.lsdimension.com/2011/11/07/t ... soulwax-2/

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2013/11/b ... alf-speed/

Video: http://vimeo.com/26148934

Audio: http://snk.to/f-c7tpycpz
Last edited by george on Wed Nov 13, 2013 8:51 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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thx for posting George :-) funny and nice

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Interesting post ! Good memories here

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Makes me want to pitch it up. I find the slower tempo annoying.
(Not that I was into Belgian stuff in the first place, lol)

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I'll always associate 'Gabber' with another country.

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:D

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Acid Mitch wrote:Makes me want to pitch it up. I find the slower tempo annoying.
(Not that I was into Belgian stuff in the first place, lol)
Was about to post the same thing. Yuk.

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Isn't that more or less what they did with house records to make Belgian New Beat?

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GeckoYamori wrote:Isn't that more or less what they did with house records to make Belgian New Beat?
New Wave/EBM, not House. House came later (European house anyway).

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GeckoYamori wrote:Isn't that more or less what they did with house records to make Belgian New Beat?
The guys in Detroit did a few years ago also, calling it "beatdown".

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[translated]
The result: a one hour long movie that never becomes boring..
I beg to differ.
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